Art Quote by Robertson Davies

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

— John Cage

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney

I always find with dramas that the more that's left to the imagination of the audience, the better.

— Jodie Comer

“Cinema is a literature of images. Theatre is a literature of ideas. If you go twenty seconds without dialogue on the stage, you’ve had…

— Peter Glenville

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is…

— Edward Bond

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is…

— Robert Lepage

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as…

— Amy Hill

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call…

— Wole Soyinka

Theatre is known as a beautiful form of art where an actor expresses his emotions and feelings without any re-takes.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

“The Theater resides at the intersection of education and the arts. The arts are seen as a set of media with a potential for…

— Philip Taylor

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

— Jennifer Tipton